New ways to look at 'Goal Setting'
I am a self confessed self help junkie....so anything related to self help and new age are issues close to heart.....
Goal setting is a pretty basic idea in self help and again I'm sure most people do this in some way or the other......personally I've tried many different ways and come down to my own style....it works for me ...... but there are goals that you dont achieve too....I keep seeking for newer ways....
It was when I read Steve Jobs ka graduation address that got me thinking.....this guy's life story has a single message : You cant join the dots forward......the guy never 'Set goals' in the traditional sense....just followed his heart, did what he loved and things turned out the way they did....
When its one of those people who you admire so much doing this, you have no choice but to get up and take notice.......
The initial meaning I took out of it was that maybe its pointless to set goals - there are so many things beyond your control that happen. In fact setting goals might get you so focussed on this that you might not see the other possiblities that arise.....
It was only after some discussions with Ashok (of U & Infinity, an NLP training company) that I grasped truly what it meant.....
Essentially what I could extract from Steve Jobs' "model" was that you cant really factor in everything that will happen at the time of making a decision for or against something......
For example we joined Rotaract just for interaction and fun....little did we know that it would lead to us starting out another NGO which in turn would expose us to so many different ideologies and lead us to creating change....there was no way we could have predicted or even dreamt of this....it just happened
The common thing in all such things was that instead of sitting back and evaluating and trying to find the "maximum return" alternative, you just throw yourself completely - offer yourself totally to what you are doing....always works better if you love what you do but anyways do it whole heartedly.....
Sooner or later unexpected things are bound to spring up - and the challenge of course is to stay open to them as and when they happen. If your life purpose is always on your radar, you'll stay open to opportunities that take you closer to it - these will perhaps be better than what you could ever imagine yourself getting....riding on them you'll reach where you want to ....who knows, perhaps much faster?
For me it means that the decision making process just cant factor in all variables.....somewhere sooner or later its a leap of faith - done in the direction where your heart wants to take you.....
Today I cant imagine a life without my friends group (G7).......and yet when these friendships were being formed we had no damn clue they'd stand us in such good stead......what if we did know that its important to have great friends....would our efforts @ school then at that time hamper the overall effectiveness of the project? Is it sometimes better to just trust and apply, and go with the flow and trust the universe?
I think so....becuase just like a plant flourishes when given total ground, a bird flies when out of cage....my true nature becomes known only in that freedom.......
Goal setting is a pretty basic idea in self help and again I'm sure most people do this in some way or the other......personally I've tried many different ways and come down to my own style....it works for me ...... but there are goals that you dont achieve too....I keep seeking for newer ways....
It was when I read Steve Jobs ka graduation address that got me thinking.....this guy's life story has a single message : You cant join the dots forward......the guy never 'Set goals' in the traditional sense....just followed his heart, did what he loved and things turned out the way they did....
When its one of those people who you admire so much doing this, you have no choice but to get up and take notice.......
The initial meaning I took out of it was that maybe its pointless to set goals - there are so many things beyond your control that happen. In fact setting goals might get you so focussed on this that you might not see the other possiblities that arise.....
It was only after some discussions with Ashok (of U & Infinity, an NLP training company) that I grasped truly what it meant.....
Essentially what I could extract from Steve Jobs' "model" was that you cant really factor in everything that will happen at the time of making a decision for or against something......
For example we joined Rotaract just for interaction and fun....little did we know that it would lead to us starting out another NGO which in turn would expose us to so many different ideologies and lead us to creating change....there was no way we could have predicted or even dreamt of this....it just happened
The common thing in all such things was that instead of sitting back and evaluating and trying to find the "maximum return" alternative, you just throw yourself completely - offer yourself totally to what you are doing....always works better if you love what you do but anyways do it whole heartedly.....
Sooner or later unexpected things are bound to spring up - and the challenge of course is to stay open to them as and when they happen. If your life purpose is always on your radar, you'll stay open to opportunities that take you closer to it - these will perhaps be better than what you could ever imagine yourself getting....riding on them you'll reach where you want to ....who knows, perhaps much faster?
For me it means that the decision making process just cant factor in all variables.....somewhere sooner or later its a leap of faith - done in the direction where your heart wants to take you.....
Today I cant imagine a life without my friends group (G7).......and yet when these friendships were being formed we had no damn clue they'd stand us in such good stead......what if we did know that its important to have great friends....would our efforts @ school then at that time hamper the overall effectiveness of the project? Is it sometimes better to just trust and apply, and go with the flow and trust the universe?
I think so....becuase just like a plant flourishes when given total ground, a bird flies when out of cage....my true nature becomes known only in that freedom.......
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